Some Gay Men See the Concept of Intersectnaly As a Threat | Them

Contents:

• NO ASIANS, NO BLACK PEOPLE. WHY DO GAY PEOPLE TOLERATE BLATANT RACISM?
• WHE GAY PRIVILEGE EXISTS ALL YEAR, BUT IS PARTICULARLY HURTFUL DURG PRI
• THE TTH ABOUT RACISM THE GAY MUNY IS THAT 'S VERY TE
• GAY CULTURE HAS GROWN TOXIC WH UNCHECKED PRIVILEGE. IT'S TIME FOR TO RET
• THE GAY COMMUNY’S OBSSN WH STAT AND LOOKS HAS HUGE MENTAL HEALTH COSTS
• DEAR WHE GAY MEN: LABELG PEOPLE OF COLOR "DIVISIVE" ISN'T A CRIQUE — IT'S RACISM
• OPN | WHE GAY CULTURE’S TOXICY REMBL RACISM
• HERE'S ONE BTAL TTH EVERY WHE GAY MAN NEEDS TO HEAR
• THE ANTI-GAY AGENDA
• KID ROCK HOMOPHOBIC SLUR (AGA) A SNI TWEET ABOUT LOVG HIS GAY IENDS
• GAY ADULT PERFORMER BILLY SANTORO ADMS HE FAKED A SUICI ATTEMPT AFTER BACKLASH FOR RACIST POSTS
• WONKY WEDNDAY: RACISM GAY ONLE DATG
• GAY RACISM
• FL PAPER: GAY GOP REP HAS HISTORY OF RACISM, VLENCE
• GAY AND RACIST – TWO MORI AT CROSSROADS
• ‘RACISM IS VERY PREVALENT THE JEWISH MUNY.’ A BLACK, JEWISH, GAY LEAR SPEAKS OUT.
• JSIE SMOLLETT TRIAL: 'EMPIRE' ACTOR FOUND GUILTY OF STAGG RACIST, ANTI-GAY ATTACK
• 10 COUNTRI THAT COMPLETELY HATE GAY PEOPLE
• SEXY DU LIK BUTT STUFF—THAT MEANS HE'S GAY, RIGHT?
• WHE GAY MEN ARE HRG OUR PROGRS AS A QUEER COMMUNY
• PEOPLE ARE CALLG OUT PARIS HILTON’S “REBRAND” BY POTG OUT HER LONG HISTORY OF RACIST AND ANTI-GAY COMMENTS
• A DOZEN MAJOR GROUPS HELP DRIVE THE RELIG RIGHT’S ANTI-GAY CSA
• NEW YORK TIM’ MARA GAY RPONDS TO RACIST TWEETS FOLLOWG MSNBC MATH BLUNR
• ‘RHOSLC’ STAR MARY COSBY ACC HEATHER GAY OF BEG RACIST

NO ASIANS, NO BLACK PEOPLE. WHY DO GAY PEOPLE TOLERATE BLATANT RACISM?

”There has been posive change recent months, one leadg black gay journalist tells me, but only bee of the work of ethnic mory LGBT dividuals “holdg magaz to acunt, settg up their own nights across the scene” and g social media, blogs, podsts and boytts to force LGBT people are much more likely than heterosexuals to suffer om mental distrs, the level is even higher among ethnic mori. In France, reportedly a third of married gay upl support the far-right Natnal stggle agast racism has, of urse, to be led by people of lour who suffer the nsequenc – such as Black Out UK, which fights for a platform for black gay men, and Media Diversified, which mpaigns for mory reprentatn the media. ”It isn’t a cince that that same summer of 2017, 11 owners of queer spac Philalphia went through mandatory anti-discrimatn trag after several cints at var gay bars — cludg the disvery of a YouTube vio showg bar owner Darryl DePiano g racial slurs 2016, and other alleged cints volvg racial discrimatn.

But even though the nversatns that muted this lumn for six weeks are nowhere close to beg over, I do feel like some thgs that me up durg that time of ntemplatn are worth sayg now — particularly to my fellow whe gay cis out more stori on LGBTQ+ ins and activistsHowever, the ghost of Larry Kramer very much remaed my own head as I ma my way through a Pri month unlike any other. Followg a man his late 30s (based on Kramer himself) who is seekg out a lovg, long-term relatnship a sea of hedonism, the novel has a clear msage: gay men need to start lovg each other stead of beg so obssed wh gettg fucked up and (lerally and figuratively) fuckg each other. In mastream gay media, the phrase almost always refers to a fairly specific subset of the LGBTQ "muny" largely ma up of whe gay cis men — even though many of the battl won around queer rights were fought by people of lour, trans and genr-nonnformg folks, and queer women, and fact the morn Pri movement self was large part iated by Black trans women.

If an imprsn of a monolhic "gay culture" fed by such a homogeneo mographic exists, is bee whe gay cis men have until very recently domated mastream reprentatn unr the LGBTQ umbrella and have, general, been hand a level of privilege the last that is wildly disproportnate to any other mographic unr said umbrella.

WHE GAY PRIVILEGE EXISTS ALL YEAR, BUT IS PARTICULARLY HURTFUL DURG PRI

Queeri5 pneerg LGBTQ Canadian films you n watch for ee right nowI've seen many of my fellow whe gay cis men seemgly rise to the ocsn by retweetg Black and Indigeno voic, gog to ralli and vowg to te themselv on how to tly be anti-racist (though how performative that is some s is unclear).

Spoke to Pachankis about the leadg strsors that origate wh the muny, their effects on mental and physil health, and how gay and bisexual men might better support one another and venture to move forward were the major prsur you found affectg the mental health of gay and bisexual men?

To the extent that we know ourselv through the reflectn of others, what we fd is that gay and bisexual men might be particularly likely to size themselv up g the same standards of attractivens and succs and masculy that they e to size up their potential sex partners, which n be particularly groups did you fd were disproportnately affected? To my knowledge, no prev studi had really homed on the strs that gay and bisexual men might experience wh each other as predictors of HIV found a rrelatn where gay and bisexual men who are particularly strsed by the gay muny’s foc on sex, stat, and petn or who were likely to perceive the gay muny as exclnary of diversy were more likely to engage sex whout ndoms or PrEP their daily liv.

THE TTH ABOUT RACISM THE GAY MUNY IS THAT 'S VERY TE

At the same time, I knew that any rearch that shows stigma or heterosexism is not the sole e of gay and bisexual men's poor mental health uld potentially be ed to somehow return to this old historic argument that somehow gay and bisexual men were herently I was fortable proceedg wh the studi bee I knew they uld potentially be a ll for actn wh the gay muny, to crease s embrace of what have historilly been s most remarkable attribut—s abily to support each other the fac of ernment neglect, to thk creatively about how to form iendships and partnerships, and ultimately how to urageoly look wh and form a muny that LGBTQ+ people n be proud there solutns to the muny dynamics suggted by your rearch? One of the least equently endorsed ems on our surveys was that gay men aren’t good iends to each other, which really suggts that relyg on and strengtheng iendships the face of some of the more strsful aspects of the gay muny would be a sure route to protect agast that type of the extent that gay muny spac move onle to platforms like Grdr, the norms for munitn and for muny get grad and brought down to the lowt mon nomator. So I thk another terventn would be eher to prerve brick-and-mortar spac, where people n ntue to ngregate diverse, open ways; or enhance onle platforms to facilate more sense of muny over expedient thg that’s often been untilized the gay muny is tergeneratnal mentorship.

And more to the pot, cril speech and of self is no way more “divisive” than the racist, transphobic, or misogynist behavr you’re beg asked to fet: It is a privilege to argue about opprsn or “divisive” thgs when you yourself do not have to experience such opprsn every day of your queer people, you mt regnize that there are hierarchil power stctur built to the LGBTQ+ muny, due to the very real opprsn of those wh who are not whe gay men. Acrdg to a 2012 study, jt over 75% of young, gay men have ed Grdr to fd sexual apps like Grdr, gay men brandish their racial datg preferenc wh the same unapologetic bravado that straight men rerve for their favore baseball DouchebagsofGrdrLike this man who jt wants to "keep whe or Lat.

GAY CULTURE HAS GROWN TOXIC WH UNCHECKED PRIVILEGE. IT'S TIME FOR TO RET

"Sexual racism is closely associated wh generic racist attus, which challeng the ia of racial attractn as solely a matter of preference, " the rearchers Douchebags of GrdrYou may be born gay and whe, but you were not born perceivg Asian or black men as unattractive — or wantg to keep any racial group out of your bedroom, for that matter. Acrdg to the study, 84% of gay and bisexual men of lor experienced racism the gay muny, and 77% of those men experienced strs as a Mic/Giphy"Our fdgs highlight that sexual racism — as an exprsn of racism generally — is an ongog issue for men who seek out other men onle, and that men engage a range of strategi for migatg the negative effects of racial prejudice this doma, " the rearchers those who want to simplify the search for a patible partner, rather than e language that am your sir acrdg to racial tegori — no this, no that — ame your sir around specific acts and quali you like.

THE GAY COMMUNY’S OBSSN WH STAT AND LOOKS HAS HUGE MENTAL HEALTH COSTS

About a week after DaBaby’s rant, Boosie Badazz, a hip-hop artist who me up the 1990s, went after Lil Nas X, one of the rare rappers who are openly, unapologetilly, explosns-of-glter gay, threateng to asslt me say first that the untry has quickly evolved on the acceptance of gayns, and that clus an evolutn among Black people.

I have always ntend that all of the -isms and -phobias are s, that a society that creat a hierarchy of humany wh whe, straight, cisgenr men at the apex, every person who is not whe or straight or cisgenr or male gets assigned a lower orr of that sense, racism and sexism, homophobia and transphobia all branch om the same one bias n fluence and amplify a society that treats racism as a sport, which each racial group is jockeyg agast the others, all of them shadowed by a culture of whe supremacy laced wh misogyny, anythg that rc your percentage of straight mal or “femiz” them is seen as weakeng the Black people bee agents agast Black power and Black liberatn, a weight on the this dulent this is adopted, traracial terror picks up where terracial terror left off. Homophob often e the same tactic, claimg that they are protectg children om is precisely the fense Boosie Badazz ed when appearg on “The Breakfast Club” rad show, at one pot seemgly exprsg a fear that if rappers didn’t speak out agast certa exprsns of gayns, an entire generatn of children uld be aga, to clarify: There is no amount of exposure that n make a straight man prefer a penis or a gay one prefer a vaga. Sexual attractn and sexualy jt don’t work that this simplistic notn of sexualy oms is that there are also gay children who have known they were different for as long as they have known anythg, and those children serve reprentatn and visibily; they need to know that there is nothg wrong, broken or evil about them, so that they, too, n feel normal and seen.

”Kid Rock, a Tmp supporter, has often referred to himself as a libertarian who is socially liberal but fislly nservative and prevly has exprsed his support for gay another recent move guaranteed to tick off a number of people, Kid Rock ved untouchable untry mician Man Wallen to perform at his Nashville honky-tonk May, right before Wallen posted a new song, “Thought You Should Know, ” on was the mullet-sportg sger-songwrer’s first shot at a public performance sce his dtry-wi ncellatn Febary, which me after he hollered the N-word at a buddy after a dnken night out. Kennedy has claimed that fluoridated water is “dggg” children, HIV do not e Aids and chemils the water are makg people gay or transgenr as well as phg nonsensil nspiracy theori about wifi and 5G cellular the son of former attorney general Robert Kennedy, and nephew of former print John F Kennedy, Kennedy has ed anguish to one of Ameri’s most storied polil dynasti wh his toxic 2019 three relativ wrote an opn lumn for the Poli webse nmng his anti-vacce advocy, which they held partially rponsible for a measl Congrsnal Integry Project ntends that Kennedy is a “Republin stooge” who is beg embraced by the far right an attempt to damage Bin.

DEAR WHE GAY MEN: LABELG PEOPLE OF COLOR "DIVISIVE" ISN'T A CRIQUE — IT'S RACISM

At the same time, 77 percent of Amerins say they are “extremely” or “very” ncerned by book rtrictns schools, acrdg to a March poll om Fox is also the se, said Skidmore College profsor Cathere Goln, who teach a class on 19th-century children’s lerature, that objectns are surgg bee the number of visual-rich picture books portrayg what ’s like to have gay parents or be transgenr has explod. ” Others cheered a provotr who, before he had dismissed the crowd as self-servg “faggots”, had spoken bravely about the joy of gay sex and exposed the flt l of the gay rights others sat poleaxed, tryg to grasp how, g to the Hollywood Bowl, they had taken a tour to the Twilight Zone. The drivg force behd the benef ncert had been the Save Our Human Rights Foundatn, a San Francis group posed largely of gay profsnals, formed rponse to the anti-gay csa spearhead by Ana Bryant and other Christian nservativ foundatn hoped to do for gay rights what the Amerin Cancer Society had done for ncer: “to te people, but a nice glossy way”.

“I wanted to tt you to your motherfuck’ soul, ” he ntued, as if the anger he’d unleashed was a thought experiment on his part, a trial he’d signed to wkle out the tth their gay people the dience, he termed, were the same gay people who, a earlier, had looked the other way at the black muny’s speratn: “When the niggers were burng down Watts, you motherfuckers were dog what you wanted on Hollywood Boulevard, didn’t give a sh about . Disorrly nduct is a class 4 felony that rri a prison sentence of up to three years, but experts have said he likely will be placed on probatn and orred to perform muny Smollett found guilty of 5 unts of stagg racist, anti-gay attack Chigo, lyg to policeDefense attorneys have suggted the Osundairo brothers were motivated to acce Smollett of stagg the hoax bee they disliked him and saw an opportuny to make money.

OPN | WHE GAY CULTURE’S TOXICY REMBL RACISM

’ ” Smollett 5: Jsie Smollett first tak the stand, tails alleged attackSmollett told the jury he “me to terms wh my sexualy” his early 20s, when he got volved chary anizatns, cludg a group that fights AIDS the Black said he dned for a role on “Empire” of a sger who is gay bee he had never seen a Black man portrayed that way.

He ttified that he has nothg agast gays and the jury was shown a photo of the siblgs takg part Chigo’s 2015 gay pri para drsed as trojan cross examatn, fense attorney Shay Allen asked Abimbola Osundairo, who worked as a stand- on the Chigo set of “Empire, ” if he tried to get a $5, 000-per-week job as Smollett’s secury and if after he was qutned by police and released he told Smollett he and his brother wouldn’t ttify at his trial if they were each paid $1 ln. 30, wh former police tective Michael Theis ttifyg that he ially viewed the actor as a victim of a homophobic and racist attack and that police “absolutely” didn’t sh to judgment as Smollett's fense attorney alleged durg openg, who now is assistant director for rearch and velopment for the Chigo Police Department, said roughly two dozen tectiv clocked some 3, 000 hours on what they thought was a hate crime  January 2019. A thread that expos the se’s extreme homophobia and anti-gay beliefs (particularly at whe gay men and whe lbians), strong anti-Semism, anti-Israel, very pro-Islam, strong misogyny (particularly at whe women), doxxg, anti-Amerinism, other hate, and ath threats (cludg at public officials).

Some bee they're so eply nflicted they're not even nscly aware they're gay and some bee they're eply closeted and don't want people to spect they're gay and havg a girliend is a pretty good disguise—vagas make great closets—but once they're bed wh a woman they have to do gayish seemg thgs orr to get there or, more typilly, close their ey and fantasize about actual gayish thgs orr to get off. ”No Jtice, No Pri and Black Liv Matter–affiliated groups reprised the prott ci across the untry throughout the Capal Pri nontatn and others like have laid bare a growg chasm wh the LGBTQ+ muny between olr activists and younger; between gay whe cisgenr men who feel like they n celebrate post-marriage equaly and those who fear for their liv unr a Tmp admistratn; between those whose biggt stumblg block life is beg gay and those who feel their eedom is ntgent not only on LGBTQ+ rights but also on issu like police reform, reproductive rights, and enomic equaly. ”But as dtups ed by groups like No Jtice, No Pri show — as well as other velopments, like the addn of a brown stripe to Philalphia’s LGBTQ pri flag; and scuffl over the cln of Israeli flags at monstratns — that not everyone is happy wh the LGBTQ+ movement’s foc on tersectnaly, which has foreground discsns of privilege, police btaly, sexism, racism, and anti-trans BeckSome gay whe cisgenr men are startg to tune out.

HERE'S ONE BTAL TTH EVERY WHE GAY MAN NEEDS TO HEAR

CHICAGO (AP) — Jsie Smollett’s nvictn Thursday for lyg to police about a racist, homophobic attack me nearly three years after his report of a horrifyg hate crime quickly beme part of a polarized polil landspe, wh people — cludg the print of the Uned Stat — weighg om all over. 28, 2021Jon Gn stepped down Monday as the ach of the Las Vegas Rairs football team hours after The New York Tim tailed emails which he had ma homophobic and misogynistic remarks, followg an earlier report of racist statements about a unn rignatn was a strikg parture om the football league for a ach who had won a Super Bowl, been a marquee analyst on ESPN and returned to the N.

Officials, as part of a separate workplace misnduct vtigatn that did not directly volve him, found that Gn had sually and equently unleashed misogynistic and homophobic language over several years to nigrate people around the game and to mock some of the league’s momento nounced the emergence of women as refere, the draftg of a gay player and the tolerance of players prottg durg the playg of the natnal anthem, acrdg to emails reviewed by The ’s msag were sent to Bce Allen, the former print of the Washgton Football Team, and others, while he was workg for ESPN as a lor analyst durg “Monday Night Football. ” In the emails, Gn lled the league’s missner, Roger Gooll, a “faggot” and a “cluels anti football psy” and said that Gooll should not have prsured Jeff Fisher, then the ach of the Rams, to draft “queers, ” a reference to Michael Sam, a gay player chosen by the team numero emails durg a seven-year perd endg early 2018, Gn cricized Gooll and the league for tryg to rce ncsns and said that Eric Reid, a player who had monstrated durg the playg of the natnal anthem, should be fired. Circle of peers, where whe male cisn makers felt fortable sharg pornographic imag, ridg the league polici, and jocularly sharg homophobic banter fli the face of the league’s public nouncements of racism and sexism and s promis to be more clive amid cricism for not listeng to the ncerns of Black players, who make up about 70 percent of rosters.

THE ANTI-GAY AGENDA

CelebryParis HiltonPeople Are Callg Out Paris Hilton’s “Rebrand” By Potg Out Her Long History Of Racist And Anti-Gay CommentsOver the years, Paris has been ught makg racist, anti-gay, and antisemic ments, and was even a vol supporter of Tmp’s durg his on January 30, 2023, 5:21 pm. While most of the leaked vios of Paris have sce been scbbed om the ter, they have not been scbbed om people’s memori — and over the weekend, one Redd er reigned the nversatn when they asked: “Why do seem everyone has fotten Paris Hilton's history of racist and homophobic remarks?

While DeMar sists that homosexuals wouldn't be round up and systematilly executed unr a "renstcted" ernment, he do believe that the ocsnal executn of "sodom" would serve society well, bee "the law that requir the ath penalty for homosexual acts effectively driv the perversn of homosexualy unrground, back to the closet. Knight, lled "Ameri's premier gay-basher" by Rob Boston of Amerins Uned for Separatn of Church and State, produc reams of sensatnalistic reports like "Sexual Orientatn and Amerin Culture, " which warns that acceptg "sexual orientatn as a civil right" will lead to "a loss of stabily muni, wh a rise crime, sexually transmted diseas and other social pathologi. Coral Ridge also has been a genero supporter of posed Alabama Chief Supreme Court Jtice Roy Moore, the "Ten Commandments Judge" who a 2002 "special ncurrence" urt opn suggted that the state uld impose "physil penalti, such as nfement and even executn" to protect children om gays and lbians.

The FRC's current senr fellow for cultural studi, Timothy Dailey, has taken over Knight's role as FRC's ma anti-gay propagandist, parg gays to "abnormal cells, " -thorg Gettg It Straight, a "statistil" pendium of the "evils" of homosexualy, and penng Dark Obssn: The Tragedy and Threat of the Homosexual Liftyle, yet another lurid FRC publitn. After losg his job teachg psychology at the Universy of Nebraska 1980, Cameron began to crank out "scientific" studi that bolstered the claims of Ana Bryant, Jerry Falwell and other early anti-gay csars that gay people were "diseased perverts" wh a program to molt children and molish Ameri. Cameron even has lled AIDS a "godsend, " and was for him: Though he was kicked out of the Amerin Psychologil Associatn for ethil vlatns 1983 (he was alleged to have ed unsound methods and misreprented the work of others) — and then, after pawng himself off as a soclogist, clared "not a soclogist" by the Amerin Soclogil Associatn — his studi allegg that homosexuals were tentnally spreadg AIDS have been equently ced by anti-gay groups and mentators like Pat Buchanan.

KID ROCK HOMOPHOBIC SLUR (AGA) A SNI TWEET ABOUT LOVG HIS GAY IENDS

Now an unaccreded llege of s own, boastg addnal mp Oh and Tennsee and the hearty endorsement of Foc on the Fay's Jam Dobson, Summ graduat more than 1, 300 stunts a year — all of them steeped both Christian "domnism" (generally, the ia that Christiany should domate society and polics) and anti-gay polics. Summ ntu to preach anti-gay propaganda to the next generatn of fundamentalist activists, wh Mike Haley, an "ex-gay" mpaigner who is Foc on the Fay's "youth and genr specialist" and thor of a book lled Straight Answers: Exposg the Myths and Facts about Homosexualy, currently on the faculty.

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